Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Decision-Making

Publications

James’ article on individual confidence in collective decisions, with Gavin Brown (Manchester) and Andy Radford (Bristol), is the cover featured article for the September issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534717301520

A new Opinion on individual confidence and collective decision-making is in press in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, authored by James together with Andy Radford (Bristol) and Gavin Brown (Manchester). The Opinion argues for the consideration of subjective confidence and its influence on communication within collectively-deciding groups. The Opinion also…

Our recent paper on decision making in honeybees has been selected to be an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review E. The journal prominently lists a small number of Physical Review E papers that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity. Here is a link to the…

We completed the ARK system —Augmented Reality for Kilobot— that allows Kilobot robots to operate in a virtual environment! The system architecture is open-source (available at http://diode.group.shef.ac.uk/kilobots/index.php/ARK) and published in the journal article: A. Reina, A. J. Cope, E. Nikolaidis, J. A.R. Marshall and C. Sabo. ARK: Augmented Reality for…

Two new papers with results of the DiODe project have been accepted recently. The review article entitled Collective Decision Making, which appeared in the journal Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences, summarises recent progress in natural and artificial collective decision making. The other paper entitled A model of the best-of-N nest-site…

A swarm of 150 kilobot robots takes a value-sensitive decentralised decision between two options (red and blue). The swarm must select the best quality option if the quality is higher than a given threshold (in this study, greater than 1.5). In this experiment, the options have quality v=5 thus the…

Late Breaking Paper accepted at SAB 2016 Swarm deadlock for symmetric choices over three or more options Andreagiovanni Reina, James A. R. Marshall and Thomas Bose A bifurcation analysis of the model shows that for previous parameterisations there is always decision deadlock in the case of three or more same-quality options. This…